"Papito's Story" by Luisa Valenzuela

What country is Luisa Valenzuela from?

• Chile

• Argentina

• Mexico

• Puerto Rico

What languages does Luisa Valenzuela possibly speak?

• Spanish only

• English only

• at least Spanish, English and French

• how would I know? I didn't read the intro.

Why did Valenzuela decide to write?

• That was her job.

• She was protesting a dictatorship.

• She needed to express her identify.

• The government made her.

What is the narrator's name?

• Luisa

• Julio

• Papito

• unnamed

How does the narrator know Papito?

• He is his grandfather.

• He is his friend.

• He is his neighbor.

• He is a stranger.

What "trinity" does Papito have forced on him?

• The police counting down.

• The Catholic Trinity.

• The three apartments in the building

• The three meals in jail.

What does "the visible eye of a telescopic sight" mean?

• God is watching.

• The police are looking in the peephole of the door.

• There are snipers on the roof.

• All the neighbors are watching.

"I almost didn't hear, three. The shot obliterated it and the astonished running feet and the splintering door and the silence." (473)

• This passage is describing Papito's escape.

• This passage is explaining Papito's murder.

• This passage is explaining Papito's suicide.

• This passage is explaining Julio's revenge.

What is the significance of the "them" used in the expletive (curse word) on page 474?

• Julio hates the world.

• Papito hates his girlfriend.

• Valenzuela is making a political statement.

• The girlfriend hates Papito.

"In that stain, my neighbor was great" (476)

• Papito's death was valueless.

• Papito's death got no answer.

• The stain is a stain.

• Papito died as a martyr to fight the government.